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The obvious solution: consumer choice in a variety of models until the market sorts our what is or is not needed.īut the designers at Apple - waxing philosophical about seemless software hardware integration - deem themselves fit to make these decisions for us. We can't predict the future - and I hardly see any big market shift to justfy why in 2011 Opticals needed to be universal kit, and in 2012 they don't. So, I find all this talk of things 'going by the wayside' to be so much hot air and certainly a poor justification for this decision.
I do imagine eventually SDs and other solid state devices will universally replace the optical disk - but this hasn't happened yet. There still isn't a real alternative to the disk for easy reliable storage, transport, exchange, and trade at a physical level. I know many many people who would (and do currently) find the idea of no optical drive beyond the pale. well, then EVERY laptop save the Air (because that wasn't a real computer anyhow) needed one. Now, of course, it is so plain to see that now in 2012 optical drives are totally ancient technology that no one in their right mind has any need for. I have tried plugging a regular USB into the port and it works fine. I do not know what it means to mount the drive, but I see there is an option to mount in disk utility but that option is not available to me. However, at that time, big daddy Apple said 'thou must have an optical drive, and no - absolutely no SSD'. The drive is a 3TB Hitachi HDS, I have the Finder Preferences set as you listed and the drive is listed in disk utility. I would have liked to have had the option for a SSD/HDD dual set up from the get-go. I just swapped out my optical drive for a SSD in my 8,1 MBP. It worries me, these choices, and more is the " then don't buy it " line that seems to pass so easily on the forums and apparently in apples boardrooms. Or look at how iOSification of OSX combined with locking down bootcamp to windows only, the neglect of VPN and other Professional, science, and developer applications have soured apple with many in those markets. In any case these ballsy choices (what optical drive), low choice, and high prices is responsible for why each innovation alienates huge swaths of apple's business (look how the enterprise and creative industries reacted to the "innovations" in apples server hardware/software with lion. Naturally I then ask these people why they haven't switched to Linux, but that's a different thread -).
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If apple is going to chargesuch prices (because they are quality machines - likely the best with their chosen -by apple - configurations) they will never be able to appeal to many older, enterprise, or pro users.
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When my PC using friends defend why they haven't switched the least assail able rationale is " apple didn't give me the specs I wanted and it is a premium priced machine". But, god forbid apple give us such hardware choices. What might another hardware manufacturer do? Offer two MBPs - one with optical drive and shorter battery life or other features and one without. With hardware software integration just not getting a new MacBook pro will eventually necessitate an entire switch of OS and the peripherals that go with it. Like so many others speaks to the weakness of apple's computer business and solidifies while it will never become the new standard.
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